Sparrow acquisition by google means mail software for windows?

0	Sparrow acquisition by google means mail software for windows? what are your opinions on this? google sparrow windows mail acquisition software asked Jul 20 '12 at 14:05 bharatkumargupta 646●41●46●53

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It's possible, although the Sparrow team wrote they would discontinue to work on Sparrow, except for bugs fixes. So the long promised push/fetch function on their iOS app, guess we'll not gonna see that happen either any time soon... Which sucks, I just bought Sparrow about a week ago for Mac and iOS...

answered Jul 21 '12 at 09:16

TheDutchGuy
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about an year ago i asked here shud google make ded email prog for desktop and then this thing happens, yes they need mail app on android and they hav to build stuff for windows so that they hav better eco-system to offer to an android user just like apple which has apple mail, so yeah even i think they are developing, and btw if they do so it ll be as awesome as chrome, i can bet u on that!

(Jul 21 '12 at 11:13) bharatkumargupta

Huh? It's fairly apparent that the acquisition is intended to make GMail more compatible with Apple products. Google has always been more Windows oriented and they're going about correcting the balance.

answered Jul 21 '12 at 09:36

dunfiddlin
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It that's true, why did Dom Leca of Sparrow released this statement:

'We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.' (Source: The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/20/3172222/google-buys-sparrow-mail/in/2936538)

So in other words, when needed there will be updates, but we won't see the long promised and awaited push/fetch option for their iOS app any time soon...

Oh well, time will tell...

(Jul 21 '12 at 10:08) TheDutchGuy

this is also done to offer a better ecosystem to an android user like apple which offers decent mail app like apple mail on ios and os x, so go google, i can bet it ll be as awesome as chrome, fingers crossed!

(Jul 21 '12 at 11:16) bharatkumargupta

There is definitely a surge for Windows based desktop email clients. That is great news for Sparrow! Starting to see other Windows email apps spring into action. Here is a Windows desktop email beta I am looking forward to testing. Just found it here- http://getmailbird.com/

answered Jul 22 '12 at 23:45

mytechparadise
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edited Jul 22 '12 at 23:45

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